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Britannica Online - Artistic Elements of Film - 0 views

school.eb.com/...article-204929 movie making encyclopedia
shared by Carrie Jiang on 04 Dec 08 - Cached
  • story, direction, acting, camera work, and editing
  • In large commercial productions, however, these jobs are carried out by different individuals and production crews under the overall supervision of a producer.
  • A producer for a large studio may handle mostly the production and postproduction business of getting a picture completed.
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ABC-CLIO: World Geography: Japan - 0 views

www.worldgeography.abc-clio.com/...Display.aspx Japan's traditions
shared by Christina T on 09 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Etiquette and good manners are extremely important to the Japanese people.
  • On entering a Japanese home, temple, or shrine, shoes are removed.
  • Business cards are extremely important in Japan.
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  • Japanese people give gifts for certain holidays, and bring gifts to family and friends when they return from vacation.
  • sticking chopsticks into a bowl of rice is considered bad manners
  • Part of the marriage ceremony involves ritual purification and the drinking of sake (rice wine)
  • choose to be married in Christian ceremonies
  • most funerals are Buddhist. The body is cremated, and while that is happening, the family eats the first meal of the day.
  • on the first day of spring and fall, and during the summer Obon (Festival of Lanterns), a Buddhist festival signifying the reunion of the living with the spirits of the dead.
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Despite Drop in CD Sales, Music Industry Is Upbeat - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2007041701869.html cd piracy music industry online apple sales
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      Jilliane Velazco on 03 Dec 08
       
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  • rising revenue from songs and albums bought on the Internet failed to offset the consumer flight from CDs.
  • CD sales was down 13 percent last year compared with 2005
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  • online sales of singles from services such as Apple's iTunes were up 60 percent last year.
  • Apple reported the sale of its 100 millionth iPod.
  • The music industry has blamed piracy for the dive in CD sales and began suing downloaders and the file-sharing services in retaliation in 2003
  • the RIAA is about to sue students for illegal downloading.
  • CD sales peaked in 2000, with the major labels shipping $13 billion worth of discs to stores.
  • Sales dropped about 8 percent each following year, until a 2 percent uptick from 2003 to 2004.
  • resumed in 2005 and hit its lowest point in more than a decade last year, when music companies shipped $9.2 billion in CDs.
  • Last year, sales of albums bought on the Internet shot up 103 percent compared with 2005
  • Jilliane Velazco on 03 Dec 08
     
    cd sales have gone down because of online piracy, etc.
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Five reasons to buy Yahoo stock - Oct. 23, 2008 - 0 views

money.cnn.com/...yahoo_buy.fortune yahoo-stocks
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  • Yes, Yahoo is losing share to Google. Yes, Yahoo is barely growing. Yes, it's a tired argument that Yahoo is one of the strongest brands in the media world. Yes, this argument for owning its stock hasn't worked in a long time.
    • Eriel Eaglin
      Eriel Eaglin on 03 Dec 08
       
      yahoo is loosing shares to Google
  • It's cheap. There's always that. Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker figures that given the value of Yahoo's cash and its publicly traded Asian assets (even taking into account the difficulty in selling stakes in other companies), investors value Yahoo's core business at just $6 per share, or eight times Wall Street's estimates of 2009 profits. That's an extraordinarily low multiple for any company with the opportunities in front of it that Yahoo has. Yahoo's management thought Yahoo was cheap at $30, of course. Today, investors would do quite nicely for a fraction of that amount. 
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      Eriel Eaglin on 03 Dec 08
       
      they say that yahoo stocks are cheap
  • Eriel Eaglin on 03 Dec 08
     
    buy yahoo stocks
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CD Sales Fall Faster Than Digital Music Sales Rise. Or Do They? - 0 views

mashable.com/...al-music-sales-rise-or-do-they rise cds illegal illegal downloads music
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  • “In 2007… Physical sales of CDs and DVDs fell 13 percent to $15.9 billion. Sales of downloaded songs and mobile-phone ringtones rose 34 percent to $2.9 billion.“
  • “piracy is killing the record industry”
  • “physical and digital piracy cost the U.S. music industry alone $5.3 billion“
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  • “30 billion illegal downloads in 2007“
  • “Even the most innovative business models are totally undermined by free music”
  • Jilliane Velazco on 08 Dec 08
     
    music sales are going down because of illegal downloads and free music; there were 30 billion illegal downloads in 2007;
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The Music Industry's Last Stand Will Be A Music Tax - 0 views

www.techcrunch.com/...last-stand-will-be-a-music-tax tax music industry
shared by Jilliane Velazco on 03 Dec 08 - Cached
  • They haven’t yet given up on trying to charge for their music, but it’s becoming more and more clear that as long as there is a free alternative (file sharing), the price of music will have to fall towards free.
  • Music Taxes Will Kill Music Innovation
  • Music industry revenues will be a set size, regardless of the quality or type of music they release.
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  • Soon labels will complain that revenues aren’t high enough to sustain their businesses, and demand a higher tax. It will go up, but it will never go down.
  • Jilliane Velazco on 03 Dec 08
     
    info about music taxes and prices
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The music industry | From major to minor | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/...displaystory.cfm economist music industry
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  • the results from 2007 confirm what EMI's focus group showed: that the record industry's main product, the CD, which in 2006 accounted for over 80% of total global sales, is rapidly fading away.
  • the volume of physical albums sold dropped by 19% in 2007
  • For the first half of 2007, sales of music on CD and other physical formats fell by 6% in Britain, by 9% in Japan, France and Spain, by 12% in Italy, 14% in Australia and 21% in Canada.
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  • “In 2007 it became clear that the recorded-music industry is contracting and that it will be a very different beast from what it was in the 20th century,”
  • Warner Music's share price has fallen to $4.75, 72% lower than its IPO price in 2005
  • They now want to move beyond Apple's iTunes and its paid-for downloads.
  • Jilliane Velazco on 03 Dec 08
     
    info about music industries; record labels; cd sales and how they have gone down
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The Energy Story - Chapter 15: Solar Energy - 0 views

www.energyquest.ca.gov/...chapter15.html energy thermal resources
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  • Solar energy can also be used to make electricity.
  • solar power plants, like the one in the picture to the right in California's Mojave Desert, use a highly curved mirror called a parabolic trough to focus the sunlight on a pipe running down a central point above the curve of the mirror.
  • mirror focuses the sunlight to strike the pipe
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  • gets so hot that it can boil water into steam
  • team can then be used to turn a turbine to make electricity.
  • California's Mojave desert, there are huge rows of solar mirrors arranged in what's called "solar thermal power plants"
  • this idea to make electricity for more than 350,000 homes
  • problem with solar energy is that it works only when the sun is shining
  • cloudy days and at night, the power plants can't create energy.
  • solar plants, are a "hybrid" technology
  • daytime they use the sun
  • night and on cloudy days they burn natural gas to boil the water so they can continue to make electricity.
  • form of solar power plants to make electricity is called a Central Tower Power Plant, like the one to the right - the Solar Two Project.
  • Sunlight is reflected off 1,800 mirrors circling the tall tower
  • mirrors are called heliostats
  • move and turn to face the sun all day long
  • light is reflected back to the top of the tower in the center of the circle where a fluid is turned very hot by the sun's rays.
  • luid can be used to boil water
  • make steam to turn a turbine and a generator.
  • We can also change the sunlight directly to electricity using solar cells.
  • Solar cells are also called photovoltaic cells
  • PV cells for short
  • be found on many small appliances
  • calculators
  • even on spacecraft
  • first developed in the 1950s for use on U.S. space satellites
  • made of silicon, a special type of melted sand.
  • sunlight strikes the solar cell, electrons (red circles) are knocked loose
  • move toward the treated front surface (dark blue color)
  • electron imbalance is created between the front and back
  • two surfaces are joined by a connector, like a wire, a current of electricity occurs between the negative and positive sides.
  • individual solar cells are arranged together in a PV module and the modules are grouped together in an array.
  • arrays are set on special tracking devices to follow sunlight all day long.
  • electrical energy from solar cells can then be used directly
  • used in a home for lights and appliances
  • in a business
  • Solar energy can be stored in batteries to light a roadside billboard at night
  • energy can be stored in a battery for an emergency roadside cellular telephone when no telephone wires are around.
  • Kate L on 03 Dec 08
     
    Solar/ thermal energy
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